The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-11-25
TELEGRAPHE SUMMARY.


and buildings valued at $4,000.
Fourteen persons were killed by an
explosion in a coal mine at are;zanoe,
Germany.
A young man named Rafferty, was
killed by the upsetting Of hay wagon
near Placervilie, Idaho.
By an explosion Of q furnace In
Cleveland, Ohio, two men were killed
and i've others badly injured
Fourteen men were seriously, and ii
10 feared some OF them fatally injured
By an explosion Of gasoline at Phila-
delphia-
The official list OF the members OF
the next House OF Representatives
shows that it will consist OF 16S Demo-
Gratis, l5S Republicans and four indie
pendents.
China officials have reported TO the
empress dowager that an amount equal
to $12, 10000 will be required Tor the
young emperor's marriage. An edicf
has been ordered to raise this amount.
a. A. Cohen, attorney for the South
ern Pacific Railway Company, died
while en- route from New York, near
Sidney, Neb. II is believed that the
immediate cause of his death was par
alysisa though he had been iii for some
months.
The Union Pacific has issued new
freight tariff. which reduces rates from
Omaha to all Montana points on an
average of ten per cent on all classes
OF goods This action grows out of the
Manitoba rate recently promulgated,
and which cut the Union Pacific felt
bound to meet
A special from CofFeevfIle, Miss, says
body OF men, estimated at $50, went
into Pittsborough and demanded OF the
commissioners that they either deliver
up the bailotboxes or issue certificates
of election to the labor candidates The
commissioners chose the latter alterna-
tive, and certificates were issued
At Amsterdam, N. Y, aerolite weigh
ing three tons dropped with loud re
port IN the main street, making deep
identation in the ground. Gfeat ex-
eitement was created by the occur
renee and large crowds visited the -ce-
Iestial visitor. Local experts find traces
Of iron, nickel, aluminium and other
metals in the aerolite.
William Kibler and Others have fled
application for writ OF mandamus to
compel the Susquehanna Coal Conn
pany TO produce the bodies OF twenty
six miners who were buried in the No.
l slope of thatcompany, at Nautic0ke,
Pa, on the 18th of December, 1885,
and whose bodies are still entomed i'm
the pit. II would cost 500, 600 TO dig
them out.
In 1886 there were handled BY the
clerks in the railway mail service oil
letters, ordinary matter and registered
packages, through registered pouches
and inner registered sacks, 5,3I5. .S47,-
GA pieces. In 1887, 5.S51 1874 ,O57, be
ing an increase OF Sos, ,54S ,013 pieces.
During the year ,734 ,6f7 errors in dis
tribtstion was found, making one error
sor each 1878 pieces handled.
Lieut. Gen. p. H. Sheridan has pre-
sented bis annual report to the Secre.
tary OF War. At the date of the last
consolidated returns, the army con-
sisted of 2200 officers and "a 226 men
including Indian scouts. The lieuten-
ant-general briefly sums up the condi-
tion of the various divisions of the
army, and says that while it has been
free from Indian hostilities of any mag.
nitude, many operations of o minor
nature have been rendered necessary
| The Hancock Chemical Company
packing house, for dynamite. was blown
up at Ishpeming, Mich. The follow
| ing named men, who were ON the prem
ises, were annihiIated with the build
ing: Willie Renaud, Charles Barkel
Thomas Thompson, Tim Crowley, VIII
King and VIM. Lapp. There were
1900 pounds of dynamite in the build
ing. Search was begun Immediately
for the bodies OF the six victims. Al
that was found were few scraps d
flesh. The cause OF the explosion vii
never be known.
Five negro laborers were killed by {
dynamite explosion in the cut ON thu
extension OF the Nashville & Florencs
railroad near Nashville, Tenn. The
calamity was the result OF misunder
standing. The foreman had sent hi
hands away to place OF safety, will
orders not to return until he sent 70
them. He, with ono or two hands
remained to charge the holes in tn,
rocks and fire the fuses. Five of tn,
hands came back in the cut just below
facing where the blasting was to b
done, aud instantly tons of boulder
and earth were hurled in on them.
The annual report OF Treasure
Hyatt shows that the revenues of tn
! Government for the fiscal year wer
1871, ,403 .277, and ordinary expendi
! lures $267 ,932 ITO, the surplus of re
{ ceipts available for reduction of th
public debt being sos, All ,097. A
: ceipts increased $34 ,963, $50, expendi
lures S25 .448 ,040, and surplus reve
nues $9,514, ,509 There was an in
crease in every article Of revenue, th
largest being in receipts from custom.
The largest increase in expenditure
} was on account OF Indians and per
! sions, and the largest decrease on az
: count Of interest on the public deb
Receipts of the postoffice departmer
4 amounted to 4.752 BAT, and expend
lures to $53, ,5S3,S35. Revenues excl,
sive Of deficiency appropriations, ii
Q seased $500, ,405, and expenditure
$2,O0I, ,249. The amount drawn froi
the treasury to make good deficiel
cies in the postal revenues was SC, ,96s
l38, rs against $8,714,422 in 1886.
Il The other afternoon as Farms
; Kellogg's oxen were drawing heas
IS load up Spring Hill, Conn.,. the loa
II shifted to the rear, raising the tongs
i r.. 44.s.